Bystander Intervention Training for TU Dublin Staff
Course Aim:
The ‘Don’t Stand By -Stand up and Speak out’ Workshop aims to provide participants with an in-depth understanding of the psycho-social complexities involved in bystander intervention and impart confidence in intervening in incidents they may witness either in person or online.
The delivery of this training is an action set out in the national policy framework published in 2019; ‘Safe, Respectful, Supportive and Positive: Ending Sexual Violence and Harassment in Irish Higher Education Institutions’, (often referred to as the ‘Framework for Consent’) and the subsequent Implementation Plan 2022-2024 on Ending Sexual Violence and Harassment at Higher Education Institutes.
The workshop is delivered by Catherine Bolger, Psychologist, Consent Lead and ESVH.
Outcomes:
The training will be a half-day ( 4.5hr) information and role-play session with learning outcomes listed below:
All participants can expect to possess the following Skills and ‘Tools’ following the training
· Social norms and Rules governing behaviour
· What is bystander Intervention/ Upstanding
· Video education and group discussion
· What kind of situation a bystander may witness and intervene in
· Small Group exercise of current experiences
· Stages of Intervention and Safety
· Norms and rules at play that prevent Intervention
· Statistics and Prevalence studies: types of Incidents recorded at TU Dublin
· What an intervention may look like – the 4 D’S
· Techniques – the how to
· Toolbox of language to employ after training